REM Speed Test MODE8 PRINT'"Speed Tester - this will take a few seconds only..." n = 10000000 TIME=0 FOR x=1 TO n NEXT COLOUR3 PRINT'"Time to do 10 million empty FOR NEXT loops = ";TIME/100;"sec" PRINT'"Rate = ";INT(n/(TIME/100));" loops/sec" COLOUR15 PRINT''"It would be interesting if you could report" PRINT"your measured rate and machine specification" PRINT"(make, processor speed, etc) by email" PRINT"to richardweston@onetel.net.uk" COLOUR2 PRINT''"My (year 1990) Archimedes 420/1 does 29673 loops/sec" PRINT "BBC Basic for Windows on my (year 2000) 600MHz Tiny computer does" PRINT"2.19 million loops/sec" PRINT" ie BB4W on the PC is 64 times faster than the Acorn Archi."